From: Mark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 13:37:53 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Issue #7384:  skip test_curses on FreeBSD, in order to allow other buildbot tests... 
X-Git-Tag: v2.7a4~163
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=45ad801ed0a4ec2554251b247fd7f506d6f815eb;p=python

Issue #7384:  skip test_curses on FreeBSD, in order to allow other buildbot tests to complete.
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_curses.py b/Lib/test/test_curses.py
index 414228211a..69271de847 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_curses.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_curses.py
@@ -21,6 +21,12 @@ requires('curses')
 curses = import_module('curses')
 curses.panel = import_module('curses.panel')
 
+# skip all these tests on FreeBSD: test_curses currently hangs the
+# FreeBSD buildbots, preventing other tests from running.  See issue
+# #7384.
+if 'freebsd' in sys.platform:
+    raise unittest.SkipTest('The curses module is broken on FreeBSD.  See http://bugs.python.org/issue7384.')
+
 # XXX: if newterm was supported we could use it instead of initscr and not exit
 term = os.environ.get('TERM')
 if not term or term == 'unknown':